7 New Playcallers That Could Make or Break Your Fantasy Draft with Nate Tice artwork

7 New Playcallers That Could Make or Break Your Fantasy Draft with Nate Tice

The Ringer Fantasy Football Show

August 19, 2026

Nate Tice gets deep into his bag to preview offenses with new play callers and how to take advantage of them in fantasy football. It’s fantastic. Nate speaks, we listen.
Speakers: Danny Heifetz, Craig Horlbeck, Danny Kelly, Nate Tice

Topics: Fantasy Sports, Sports

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**Danny Heifetz** (1:53)
Welcome to The Ringer Fantasy Football Show. My name is Danny Heifetz, and I'm joined by Danny Kelly and Craig Horlbeck, and in a moment, we will be joined by Nate Tice from Yahoo! Because today we're going over all the play callers that changed. We have more than half the NFL has changed their play callers this season, and we wanted our buddy Nate Tice to tell us, sorry, Nate Tice to tell us is a weird sentence, but we wanted Nate Tice to tell us which ones he's higher and lower on, because that's one of the most important things going into each season.
We also, just a reminder, live Netflix draft, Craig, what day? Friday, August?

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:24)
28th.

**Danny Kelly** (2:25)
Boom.

**Craig Horlbeck** (2:26)
At 11 a.m. Pacific. Tune in on Netflix. We will be drafting and it'll be a great time.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:31)
And, DK, do you know what date that is, even though Craig just said it?

**Danny Kelly** (2:35)
The 28th?

**Danny Heifetz** (2:36)
Of August. And what time is it if you're on East Coast?

**Danny Kelly** (2:39)
11 Oh, it's 1 o'clock. No, 2 o'clock Eastern.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:43)
Boom.

**Danny Kelly** (2:43)
There we go. All right.

**Danny Heifetz** (2:45)
Netflix Ringer Fantasy Football Draft. That's going to be really fun.
We're going to get to Nate on the play colors. He's highest and lowest on entering the season. First, we're going to take a quick break.
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**Craig Horlbeck** (3:49)
Nate, how are you doing today?

**Nate Tice** (3:51)
What an honor. That's great. An honorary Danny?
That's amazing.

**Craig Horlbeck** (3:56)
Does that mean you're like the godfather of the show? It's like if one of us passes on, you kind of come in. I think you are.

**Danny Kelly** (4:03)
Yeah, he takes custody of us.

**Nate Tice** (4:06)
Yeah, I was going to say, who's the, yeah, wait, who's the parents in this relationship?

**Craig Horlbeck** (4:09)
Or is it the Danny and Danny of Craig?

**Danny Heifetz** (4:11)
Yeah, you guys could get remarried after I died, but only to Nate. That's really, that's really nice. Guys.

**Nate Tice** (4:19)
Yeah, I'm on the list. Yeah, like when people get married. Yeah, I'm on the list. That's great. I made it.

**Danny Heifetz** (4:26)
Nate, you are the man. We have like the most crazy tangent, like tangent going conversations every time we get dinner. But we wanted to have you on because you also are like, just to be honest, like probably the smartest person in media about NFL scheme, about all this. I'm sorry. I know. Blow smoke up your ass, blah, blah, blah. But I don't know about you guys, DK and Craig, but I feel like shower today. I know.

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